India, June 27 -- The United Kingdom on Friday provisionally recorded its highest-ever temperature for the month of June for the third consecutive day, with the mercury soaring to 37.3degC at Santon Downham in Suffolk, as an intense heatwave continued to grip the country.

According to the Met Office, the temperature surpassed the provisional June records set on June 24 and June 25. If verified through the official assessment process, 37.3degC will become the UK's new all-time highest temperature ever recorded in June.

The weather agency said several other monitoring stations also exceeded the previous June record of 35.6degC, which had stood since June 28, 1976, and June 29, 1957.

"Today marks the peak of the heatwave in terms of tempe...